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Test and Monitor Segment
Survey 2015
Euromedia spoke to a
range of players in the
Test and Monitoring
sector to find out how
they are responding to
the market dynamics
and enabling their
broadcaster and service
provider clients to
maintain market share
and protect revenue in
an age where the Cloud
is playing a growing
role and consumers are
looking to access their
content across a range
of unmanaged devices.
Euromedia: What are the main challenges
in maintaining QoE as networks transition
video distribution from DVB to IP? Do
hybrid networks demand hybrid monitoring
solutions?
Bridge Technologies: Absolutely. A
hybrid network is more than the sum of its
parts. You can have specialised monitoring
tools for the broadcast technology
components, and other tools for the IP
component. But the two won’t talk to each
other and won’t give a coherent overview of
the whole network, with the ability to chase
technologies equally, and brings all the data
and measure against qualitative performance
together and presents it in a way that allows
staff to deal with H